Knowing Blood / Sang sens
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Exhibition runs January to August 2016
Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Curated by Darren N. Wagner and Nick Whitfield
Powerful and evocative yet multifarious and enigmatic—blood seeps into our everyday experiences. Varied cultural and social perspectives have blood to be at once universal, divisive, and transformative, carrying meanings ranging from health, personhood, and sex to identity, religion, and family. How have these many meanings coloured how blood has been known and observed in modern medicine? Our res
02/26/2016
Film screening in conjunction with Knowing Blood / Sang sens! Come one, come all, March 8 at 6pm!
01/31/2016
Wednesday's vernissage was a rousing success with 50+ folks partaking of the food, wine and blood! Thanks to all who attended!
01/27/2016
All's ready for tomorrow's vernissage - see you at 6 bells!
01/12/2016
Open slide method of blood typing. For when you just need to know.
The Blood Bank by Kilduffe DeBakey.
01/06/2016
When your pal wants his tongue bled, Discorsi di Pietro Paolo Magni (1626) has you covered.
01/05/2016
01/04/2016
Distribution of bood group gene A in the aboriginal populations of the world. By A.E.Mourant, 1954.
01/02/2016
"A film documenting Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms, research which in the film appears to be successful." 1940s; mad science!
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/experiments-in-the-revival-of-organisms-1940/
12/23/2015
A taste of the exhibit: detail from spectacular frontispiece of Robert Fludd's treatise Pulsus, 1630.
12/23/2015
Today in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine: "Keeping an animal in oxygen" from Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson's book The Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood, 1858.
12/18/2015
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